4th Circuit Panel Affirms Defense Summary Judgment; Causation Burden Unmet

Posted by rob on April 22, 2009 under Uncategorized | Comments are off for this article

RICHMOND, Va. – A West Virginia widow seeking to link the death of her husband to occupational exposure to herbicides while employed by a tree service failed to link The Dow Chemical Co. and Dow AgroSciences to the chemicals she alleges caused him to contract chronic myelogenous leukemia, and the trial court grant of summary judgment was not in error, a unanimous Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said April 8 (Melody White, et al v. The Dow Chemical Co., et al., No. 08-1165, 4th Cir.; 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 7483; See 4/1/05, Page 16).
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